Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes

You can believe something really hard,' Faith says, 'and still be wrong.

Must faith be exactly that, the willingness and ability to believe in the face of a lack of evidence? If one could find the evidence, would then the faith be dead?

When we become advocates of a creed, something dies; we do not believe God, we only believe our belief about Him.

WHEN reading my present treatise, bear in mind that by "faith" we do not understand merely that which is uttered with the lips, but also that which is apprehended by the soul, the conviction that the object [of belief] is exactly as it is apprehended. If, as regards real or supposed truths, you content yourself with giving utterance to them in words, without apprehending them or believing in them, especially if you do not seek real truth, you have a very easy task as, in fact, you will find many ignorant people professing articles of faith without connecting any idea with them.

You do not need proof for what people want to believe.

He who believes needs no explanation.

Philosophers there are who try to make themselves believe that this life is happy; but they believe it only while they are saying it, and never yet produced conviction in a single mind.

Knowing the 'right answers' does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they're true.

One can only believe entirely, perhaps, in what one cannot see.

The truth is still the truth whether or not you believe it. Can we say the same about lies? No, lies only exist because we believe them. If we don't believe in lies, they simply disappear.

This little expression, 'It doesn't matter what you believe as long as you're sincere,' is a monstrous lie.

The light of faith makes us see what we believe.

I don't believe. I know.

If we cannot believe God when circumstances seem be against us, we do not believe Him at all.

No matter what god or doctrine you believe in, if you become attached to it, your belief will be based more or less on a self-centered idea.

Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe.

Great is his faith who dares believe his own eyes.

It need not discourage us if we are full of doubts. Healthy questions keep faith dynamic. In fact, unless we start with doubts we cannot have a deep-rooted faith. One who believes lightly and unthinkingly has not much of a belief. One who has a faith which is not to be shaken has won it through blood and tears-has worked his or her way from doubt to truth as one who reaches a clearing through a thicket of brambles and thorns.

Confidence: The feeling that makes one believe a man, even when one knows that one would lie in his place

Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.

We don't believe because we understand. We understand because we believe.

The typical person has no trouble believing without knowing. What people need to realize is simply that you do not need to believe to know.

Carl did not want to believe. He wanted to know.

Start believing the Word of God over our feelings. The truth always overrides our feelings. Find the truth in the scriptures.

The difficulty of explaining ‘why I am a Catholic’ is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true.